Indie Week 2020: Watch Now!

A2IM Virtual Indie Week 2020: Start Watching (or Re-Watching) The Panels Now!

Thank you to the independent music community for making our first-ever, virtual A2IM Indie Week a success! While the move from IRL to virtual presented challenges, we were thrilled with the overwhelmingly positive responses that we received from our attendees via emails, phone calls, and our official Indie Week survey.

If you were unable to join us this year or if you were able to join us but wanted to re-watch any of the panels, now is your chance. Between now and the end of the year, we will be releasing two new videos per week on our official A2IM YouTube channel, A2IM Indie Week 2020 Playlist.

This week’s videos include:
1. Politics in Music: Equitable Global Performance Royalties
   As our industry globalizes, reciprocal rights and the conversation surrounding the lack of a U.S. terrestrial, radio performance right, becomes more and more pressing. What effect do global trade agreements have on these conversations? How is safe harbor being exported?
2. Advocacy Update; A2IM in Action
   A2IM’s Washington DC lobbyist Josh Hurvitz, partner at NVG and A2IM President & CEO, Dr. Richard James Burgess, update the A2IM community on advocacy-related matters and their effect on the Independent Community.

Check back here each week, or go directly to our Official A2IM YouTube Channel; Indie Week 2020 Playlist to see what’s new!

About A2IM:
A2IM is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization headquartered in New York City that exists to support and strengthen the independent recorded music sector. Membership currently includes a broad coalition of more than 700 Independently-owned American music labels. A2IM represents these independently owned small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) interests in the marketplace, in the media, on Capitol Hill, and as part of the global music community. In doing so, it supports a key segment of America’s creative class that represents America’s diverse musical cultural heritage. Billboard Magazine identified the Independent music label sector as 37.32 percent of the music industry’s U.S. recorded music sales market in 2016 based on copyright ownership, making Independent labels collectively the largest music industry sector.

Learn more about A2IM. To join, contact us at [email protected].